Summary In a stunningly original work about the impact of cultural perceptions in international relations, Simei Qing offers a new perspective on relations between the…
Country or Region: Taiwan
Abstract China and Taiwan should seek progress on modest steps to improve the cross-strait atmosphere and help keep tensions under control in what remains a…
Summary The United States alliance with Nationalist China was a central feature of American strategy in East Asia during the cold war, but it has…
Summary Taiwan’s first presidential election, in 1996, sparked a Sino-U.S. military showdown that resulted in the biggest show of U.S. naval force in East Asia…
Summary From two former Beijing bureau chiefs with long experience in Asian affairs comes a clear-eyed and uncompromising look at the potentially disastrous collision course…
Summary This analytical study examines in comprehensive detail the making of the American military and political commitment to Taiwan during the first half of the…
Abstract This paper presents some scenarios that, if they were to come to pass, could result in military conflict with China over the next thirty…
Abstract Theories of the product cycle, hegemony, and the world system are used to analyze the creation and development of the Northeast Asian political economy…
Abstract Tensions surrounding numerous maritime territorial disputes in East Asia have become a pressing challenge for U.S. foreign policymakers. Beginning around 2005-2006, long-disputed waters in…
Continue reading Dolven, Ben, Shirley A. Kan, and Mark E. Manyin
Abstract The relationship between China and Taiwan is more stable in 2009 than it has been in years, but China has nonetheless not renounced its…
Summary Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People’s Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status. Its growing material power has…
Abstract This paper presents some scenarios that, if they were to come to pass, could result in military conflict with China over the next thirty…
Continue reading Dobbins, James, David C. Gompert, David A. Shlapak, and Andrew Scobell
Summary The first half of the 21st century will be dominated by the relationship between the United States and China. That relationship is likely to…
Abstract For rationalists, China (PRC)’s current conciliatory policy toward Taiwan is merely “calculative.” Hence, Chinese leaders must act patiently with Taiwan to dampen the “China…
Abstract International safeguards is the system of measures put in place by the International Atomic Energy Agency and states to ensure nuclear programs remain dedicated…
